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So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
